You know you are addicted to technology when...
Thursday, December 4, 2008 by ALMonty | Discussion: Community
You know you are addicted to technology when...
You can't sit through an entire movie without having at least one device on your body beep or buzz.
You think of the gadgets in your office as "friends", but you forget to send your father a birthday card.
In computer shops, you eavesdrop on a salesman talking with customers, butt in to correct him and spend 20 minutes answering the customers' questions, while the salesman stands by silently, nodding his head.
You say "digital compression" in a conversation without thinking how strange your mouth feels saying it.
You constantly find yourself in groups of people to whom you say "digital compression". Everyone understands what you mean and you are not surprised or disappointed that you don't have to explain it.
You say "voice number" instead of "phone number" as the majority of phone lines in any house are linked to contraptions that talk to other contraptions.
You back up your data every day.
On holiday, you read a computer manual and turn the pages faster than those who read John Grisham novels.
You go to trade shows and map out your path of the exhibit hall in advance. But you can't give someone directions to your house without looking up street names.
You would rather get more dots per inch than miles per gallon.
You are so knowledgeable about technology that you feel secure enough to say "I don't know" when someone asks you a technology question instead of feeling compelled to make something up.
You understand all these jokes.
If so, technology has taken over your life. We suggest you go lie under a tree and write a haiku. And don't use a laptop.
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Reply #62 Friday, December 12, 2008 6:18 AM
Hehe, when it comes to science, I went from being utter child moron to complete and utter adult moron... science/chemistry was/is not my strongest subject... though I once wasn't half bad at biology practical. 
I had a science teacher when I was at school in England who was very much like Professor Julius Sumner Miller, in the way he spoke and presented things, how he asked questions of us, right down to the facial expressions and body language. He was a great teacher and a top person... so if he failed to educate me in the ways of science, it was the lousy material he had to work with. 
Reply #63 Friday, December 12, 2008 7:00 AM
We had an American science teacher, Mr Stiddum, damn he was hot, I was totally in love he never went off at me ever! even when I torched my desk with the ol' bunsen burner 
Reply #64 Friday, December 12, 2008 9:40 PM
I had an English teacher like that *starkers swoons*... her name was Miss Memery, but that got changed (covertly, of course) to Miss Mammary... cos she was BUF (Big Up Front)
Reply #65 Friday, December 12, 2008 10:05 PM
This whole post rocks, thanks a lot folks 
Reply #66 Monday, December 15, 2008 4:35 AM
hehehe 
I've started to speak in ASCII, after mastering speaking in parentheseis [ ] <-- Good, aren't I 
Reply #67 Friday, December 19, 2008 7:30 PM
You know you're addicted to technology when... you install an ATM-like machine in your toilet to dispense toilet paper
Reply #69 Friday, December 19, 2008 8:06 PM
You know you're addicted to Technology when you try to clear the documents on your Nintendo DS 
Reply #70 Friday, December 19, 2008 8:24 PM
You know you're old when you have to ask "what's a Nintendo DS"?
Reply #71 Friday, December 19, 2008 8:50 PM
Hey Ed, it's a game console, something along the lines of Xbox and Sony Playstation. Not knowing that, however, does not make you old.
You know you're addicted to technology... and old when you hang on to your abacus for the want of something better. 
Reply #72 Friday, December 19, 2008 9:09 PM
I was holding onto my abacus the other day in the store and someone called the cops. I guess I should have taken it out of my pocket before I used it.
Reply #73 Friday, December 19, 2008 9:29 PM
Or were you playing pocket billiards?
Reply #74 Friday, December 19, 2008 9:41 PM
Nah, me que isn't worth a damn. So I just play with my nuts. Pecans in the right pocket and almonds in the left.
Reply #75 Friday, December 19, 2008 9:47 PM
Just a handheld console Ed, remember the gameboy? this is a way advanced version 
Dual screen, touch screen, microphone etc, nice little system.. actually, it's a really expensive dust magnet 
Reply #76 Friday, December 19, 2008 11:30 PM
When I was a kid we were] so poor that dad cut holes in my pockets so I had something to play with.
Shows how old... er, how much I know... and there was me thinking it was like an Xbox.
You know you're addicted to technology when you get the vacuum cleaner out to dust your Nintendo handheld.
Reply #77 Friday, December 19, 2008 11:39 PM
Seriously starkers, there's something wrong with me, I keep trying to tidy the loungeroom by clearing the start menu 
It didn't work! [genuine shocked expression]
Reply #78 Friday, December 19, 2008 11:50 PM
when yo go to sleep thinking about what you are going to do on your pc tomorrow 
Reply #79 Saturday, December 20, 2008 11:10 AM
Hehe... after the grandkids have scattered toys all over the place I go to defrag... doesn't work, either. 
Yup, you're well and truly addicted orright. There is a pill for that but i can't remember whether I had to take the green one first, or the red.
You know you're addicted to technology when you haven't used snail mail in ages and you're looking for the envelope slot in Thunderbird to post a letter. 
Reply #80 Saturday, December 20, 2008 2:24 PM
You say not tonight because your scrolling finger is cramping. 
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Reply #61 Friday, December 12, 2008 5:20 AM
starkers, when I was 6, I apparently use to watch old Professor Julius Summner Miller [spelling?] doing his rocket science [or whatever, probably putting eggs into milk bottles, remember that one? lol] class on ABC, and understood every word, according to my Grandmother.
I went from possible child prodigy, to complete and utter moron, how's that for technology
